Portable gun.



No. 860,490. PATENTED JULY 16, 1907. 0. LAUBER & F. STOCK.

PORTABLE GUN. APPLICATION FILED APR. 9'. i906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OTTO LAUBER AND FRIEDRICH STOCK, OF ESSEN-ON-THE-RUHR, GERMANY, ASSIGNORS TO FRIED. KRUPP AKTIENGESELLSOI IAFT, OF ESSEN-ON-TI-IE-RUI-IR, GERMANY.

PORTABLE GUN.

No. 860,490; Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 16, 1907. Application filed April 9, 1906. Serial No. 310,804.

To all whom it may concern: Outside of the wall F, the shaft K carries a worm-wheel Be it known that we, OTTO LAUBER, residing at N which engages with a worm P. The shaft of the Essen-on-the-Ruhr, West, Germany, and FRIEDRICH worm is journaled in a housing M. arranged in the slide- STOCK, residing at Essen-on-the-Ruhr, Germany, both piece M and by means of flexible shaft Q, the worm 5 subjects of the Emperor of Germany, have invented a shaft is connected with the shaft R of a hand-wheel R",

certain new and useful Improvement in Portable the shaft R being slidably arranged in a bearing f on Guns, of which the following is a specification. v the wall F of the mount.

The present invention relates to portable guns hav- The mode of operation of the elevating mechanism ing the gun-barrel and the horizontal trunnions adjustneed not be described as it is apparent from the draw- 10 able about a vertical axis. ing.

The gun according to the present invention is of sim- When the gun is adjusted laterally by means of the ple construction and the weight of the mount is conhorizontal training mechanism, the gun-barrel A, the siderably smaller than in the known devices of this cradle B, the horizontal trunnions b and the bearing kind. blocks 0 D swing about the trunnion E. By mount- 15 One embodiment of the invention is, by way of exing the bolt J with lateral play in the eye d. or in the ample, shown in the accompanying drawing applied arms g, provision is made for the movement of the eye to a high angle firing gun. d in a circular path and the movement of the slide Figure l is a side view partly in section, of a part of piece G in a straight-lined path. The elevating mechthe gun. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2, Fig. 1, looking anism partakes of the swinging movement of the above- 20 from the right. Fig. 3 is a top view corresponding to mentioned parts, and the slide-picee M, therefore, Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a section on line 44, Fig. 2, look slides in the frame f while the shaft R slides in the ing from the left. bearing f and the flexible shaft Q becomes slightly The gun-barrel A is guided in the cradle B which curved. carries the horizontal trunnions 1) through the medium In the preamble, are stated the main advantages of 25 of arms b (see in particular Fig. 2). The trunnions I) the present invention over the known guns having the are journaled in blocks C, D, one of which (0) is turngun-barrel and the horizontal trunnions adjustable able on a vertical trunnion E, which is arranged on a about the axis of a vertical trunnion. These advan guide-piece E secured on the wall E of the mount and tages are due to the fact that in the improved gun, the provided with flanges 6 (Fig. 3 and 4) which overlap vertical trunnion and its bearing are carried by one of 30 corresponding flanges c on the block 0. The other the walls of the mount, while in the known guns of this bearing block (D) is also provided with guide flanges d class, a special part such as a cross-piece or the like, (Fig. 2) which engage with undercut grooves in a arranged between the walls of the mount, serves as guide-piece F seciu'ed on the wall F of the mount. carrier for the bearing of the vertical trunnion.

The flanges c, d and their guide-ways are curved in Having described the invention, what is claimed as 35 arcs that are concentric with the trunnion E. new is:

The horizontal training mechanism engages with an 1. In a portable gun, the combination with the barrel eye (Z (Figs. 1 and 3) arranged on the xt ri f th and the mount, of horizontal trunnions tor the barrel,

means supporting said horizontal trunnions on the mount L 0 s block D and has lts shaft H lomnaled m {L housm and permitting said trunnions to swing about an axis mounted O t Wall Fof the mount- The Shaft H 15 located outside of the symmetry plane of the gun, and 40 held from axial movement and is provided at LIL (Fig. 1) horizontal training mechanism connecting the horizontal with screw-threads which engage with corresponding g i gi b h th 1) I n a por a e gun, t e com ination wit e arre 0 F m Shde plece G Whlch 1s ,shdably f and the mount, of horizontal trunnions for the barrel, 111 the housmgfz and held from lotatlon thelem' The means supporting said horizontal trunnions on the mountslidepiece G is pivotally connected to the eye (Z ing, permitting said trunnions to swing about an axis 45 through the medium of arms d a b l J h i l t. located in a plane outside the symmetry plane of the gun 8N1 p y in the y (13 or in the arms 9, and confining said swinging to paths concentric to the i axis. A11 elevatlng e f Plovlded Yvlth toothed 3. In a portable gun, the combination with a gun barrel segment serves for ad usting the elevation of the gun. ounted to swing upon horizontal trunnions, of means The shaft K of the pinion it, Which engages with the guiding said gun barrel and its horizontal trunnions on 50 toothed segment b3 secured on the Cradle is journaled the mount in paths concentric to an axis located outside rd M: d ms 2 d2 on theblocks O m of the symmetry plane of the gun, 1119's 1 P 1 c 4. A portable gun having its barrel and its horizontal D, The slideiece M is shdably arranged n a rectarr trunnions adjustable about a vertical axis located in the gular frame f inserted in the wall F of the mount. P a of 0119 Of the Walls Of the gull-mount- 11 5. A portable gun having its barrel and its horizontal trunnions adjustable about a vertical trunnion secured to one of the Walls of the gun-mount.

G. A gun having its barrel adjustable about a vertical axis located in a plane on one side of the barrel, and means confining the adjustment of the barrel to a path concentric to said axis.

7. The combination with the gun mount having, a pair of walls, of a vertical trunnion located on one of the Walls, and a gun barrel adapted to swing on the vertical trunnion and guided on the other wall in a path concentric With the vertical trunnion.

8. The combination with the gun mount, of a barrel, horizontal trnnnions for the barrel, and a vertical trunnion located in a plane on one side of the symmetry plane of the gun, and means guiding the gun in a path concentric With the vertical trunnion.

The foregoing specification signed at Diisseldorf this twenty-third day of March, 1906.

OTTO LAUBER. FRIEDRICH STOCK.

In presence of- \VILLIA Essnxwnm,

ALFR. Ponminrnn. 

